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by Maursault 1350 days ago
> I don’t recall there being a successful Emacs port to classic Mac OS — I would have been very interested in the early to mid 90’s.

Correct. Apple had emacs removed from A/UX because it took up too much space. Though some built it on their Macs in the late 1980s, it didn't have full functionality, at least not without headaches.[1] But A/UX came with vi, which worked well.

[1] https://www.tuhs.org/Usenet/comp.unix.aux/1989-September/003...